More Like You with Angie Mizzell

Tim Church is a well-known and respected personal trainer here in Charleston, and he’s also the person I talked to right before I left my career in television news. The question he asked me: “What’s your perfect day?” was key in helping me taking a leap of faith that changed my life, and it’s a key scene in my memoir "Girl in the Spotlight." I’m so happy to talk to Tim today about that m...

The thing that keeps us stuck isn’t the nos—it’s the maybes we keep trying to force into a decision before we’re ready. In this episode, I’m sharing a lesson I stumbled onto while watching my husband clean out his closet in 15 minutes flat, and how it became the framework I use for everything from what stays on my calendar to what I’m actually saying yes to in this season of life. If you’re cravin...

We don't always have crystal clarity. In fact, most of the time we don't—and yet life keeps asking us to move forward anyway. The questions pile up: big ones, small ones, ones your brain keeps circling back to even after you've tried to release them. In this episode, I share a simple practice for getting those questions out of your head and into a place where they can actually rest,...

When writing a eulogy feels impossible, the way in isn't through the grief—it's through a song. That's what I discovered after losing my mom fifteen months after my memoir, "Girl in the Spotlight" was published, a book in which our mother-daughter story was woven all the way through. I'm sharing her eulogy today because music does something that even a writer reaches...

You can do the inner work. You can read the books, see the therapist, write the memoir. And then you become a parent — and the work starts all over again, just with smaller people watching. This episode is a conversation with James Moffitt of the Parenting Adult Children podcast, and it's for anyone who thought healing was something you finished — and then discovered it's actually someth...

Recording your own memoir means reading the hard parts out loud. The grief. The loss. The moments you'd almost forgotten. In this episode I'm taking you behind the scenes of recording Girl in the Spotlight as an audiobook — from the bedroom closet recording studio I built out of blankets and pillows, to the moment I finally started sounding like myself. I'm also sharing my full conv...

E27: Girl in the Spotlight Is Now an Audiobook — And Why This Story Still Matters Two years after publication, my memoir Girl in the Spotlight is now an audiobook. In this episode I'm sharing the full story behind the book, why the timing of this audiobook is exactly right, and why I believe this coming-of-age story is still so important for the woman who is standing at a crossroads right now...

We live in a culture that's always pushing us toward the next thing. But what if the most important move you can make right now is to pause and look back? In this episode, I'm sharing the simple reflection practice I did with my family on New Year's Eve — the exact questions we used, what surprised me about how my kids showed up, and why I believe you can't really trust yoursel...

Some conversations find you at exactly the right moment. This one found me in a gift shop. I met Gina Moore at the register of her store Pluff Mud Mercantile in Charleston on a day when I was grieving more than I realized. What started as help finding a birthday gift for a friend turned into a thirty-minute conversation that shifted something in me. I left feeling more like myself than I had in we...

When I read the title of Jaclyn Michelle Smith's memoir I had to know the story behind it. When I read the book I understood completely. I'm Sorry I Cremated You captures what it's really like to love and care for an aging parent — the heartbreak, the impossible decisions, the guilt, and the unexpected moments of humor that show up right beside the tears. Jaclyn became her father&ap...

The moment your first child leaves for college, something shifts — and nobody fully prepares you for it. Not just the quiet house, but the question underneath it: who am I now? Allie Hill is a life coach, author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Empty Nesting , and someone who was, by her own admission, slightly devastated when her daughter left. In this conversation we talk about what the empty n...

In 2005, Carrie Morey started a biscuit business from her kitchen with a baby on her hip, a mom who thought it was a terrible idea, and a conviction that family would always come first. Twenty years later, Callie's Hot Little Biscuit is a nationally recognized Southern brand—and Carrie never missed a single thing that mattered. This conversation is about what it actually looks like to build s...

Your birthday is the one day a year that belongs entirely to you. So why do so many of us dread it, dismiss it, or hand it over to other people's expectations? Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming is the author of How to Have a Happy Birthday and a self-described birthday coach — and this conversation goes much deeper than party planning. We talk about why our relationship with our birthday often reflects o...

You already know more than you think you do. The problem is we've been taught to distrust it. Shauna VanBogart is an intuitive mentor and coach who helps women understand themselves at a level most of us have never been given permission to explore. In this conversation we talk about what intuition actually is, why so many women have learned to ignore it, and what it looks like to start trusti...

Lindsay Ferrier built a career on wit, honesty, and saying out loud what everyone else was thinking — her blog Suburban Turmoil was one of the most widely read mom blogs of its era. But for years, she kept one part of her story completely hidden. In this episode, Lindsay opens up about the abuse she endured behind closed doors, the moment she knew she had to leave, and the promise she made to hers...

Jonathan "Mookie" Morant had one of the most remarkable careers in music you've probably never heard about. He wrote and produced for the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Justin Timberlake, and Queen Latifah — and then walked away from all of it to be present for his kids. His memoir The Happy Has Been is about what he found on the other side of that choice. In this conversation we talk abou...

What if the thing standing between you and confidence isn't your body — it's what you're putting on it? Camellia Jade is a personal stylist at Style Finder Boutique and a woman on a mission to help other women feel at home in their bodies. I met her when we both spoke at the Take the Lead conference in Charlotte — where she opened her talk by stripping down to her red underwear in f...

When your kids start leaving the nest, two things happen at once. You're proud of who they're becoming — and you're quietly asking yourself who you're becoming next. Laurin Collar is a lifestyle content creator, founder of The Collar Find, and someone I've known since we were cheerleaders together in high school. She left a career in TV news, built a thriving online busine...

Every time the season changes I get the urge to declutter. But the most useful inventory isn't the one in your closet — it's the one you take of your life. In this solo episode I'm walking you through a simple practice I use to get clear on what belongs in my life right now and what doesn't. It starts with your closet and ends somewhere much more important — your time, your ene...

Sometimes the most important question isn't what you should do next. It's whether you're willing to stop forcing something that no longer fits. In this episode I'm sharing a conversation I had as a guest on the Badass Women in Business podcast — a conversation that ended up being one of the clearest articulations of what this show is really about. We talk about how I knew it wa...

What if the leap you're afraid to take is less risky than it looks — because you already have more of a safety net than you realize? Kerstin Martin has moved across the world, left corporate life, reinvented her career twice, and built a thriving online business — all while rejecting the hustle culture that tells you the only way forward is to go faster and push harder. In this conversation w...

Finding your voice isn't a single moment. For most of us it's a slow uncovering — layer by layer, season by season, often starting much later than we expected. Marnie Dachis Marmet spent years feeling stuck inside herself before she finally started writing her way out. Her memoir My Song Unleashed is the story of that journey — and in this conversation we talk about what it actually take...

Nobody told us perimenopause could start in our early forties (or sooner). Nobody told us it could last a decade. And nobody told us it would arrive at the same time as everything else — aging parents, kids leaving home, career questions, identity shifts. Kerri Devine is the founder of Hot in Charleston and the creator of Midlife Monologues — a sold-out live show that brings together three generat...

Some people spend years learning to trust themselves. Lorna Hollifield was born that way — and it has made all the difference. Lorna is an author and editor whose debut novel Bright Little Girls is a testament to what happens when you refuse to write for anyone but yourself. In this conversation we talk about authenticity as a superpower, what it takes to keep believing in a dream through years of...

We spend so much time preparing for what could go wrong. What if we spent even a fraction of that energy imagining what could go right? Ann Imig is a life coach, the creator of the beloved storytelling series Listen to Your Mother, and someone who has thought deeply about why our brains work against us — and what to do about it. In this conversation we talk about the neuroscience of stress and sel...